Services and Accommodations

Our services and/or accommodations are intended to provide equal educational opportunity through programmatic access to the Boulder campus community. Students may qualify for services even if their documentation does not support the need for an accommodation. There are no fees for services and/or accommodations with the exception of LD
diagnostic testing.

Services may included:

• Meetings with a specialist to develop learning strategies
  (e.g., study skills, time management, problem solving,
  test preparation)
• Advocacy
• Academic advising assistance (does not replace main
  academic advisor)
• Assistive technology (e.g., alternate writing tools,
  different print formats, adaptive workstations)
• Career Program for Students with Disabilities
• Referrals to other university and community resources
• Screening for any university student who is uncertain
  whether an assessment for a disability is warranted
• Learning disability diagnostic testing and interpretation
  (fee based)

Accommodations may include:

• Exam accommodations
  –Extended time
  –Distraction-reduced testing environment
  –Use of word processor and/or spell check
  –Readers
  –Scribes
• Communication accommodations
  –Interpreters
  –Real-time captioning
  –Assistive listening devices
  –Notetakers
• Other adaptive accommodations/auxiliary aids
  –Alternative text formats (e.g., audio, books on CD,
  Braille)
  –Speech to text/Text to speech (e.g., Dragon, WYNN)
  –Adaptive computer access (e.g., JAWS, Zoomtext)

The services and/or accommodations CU-Boulder provides may be different from those the student has received previously. In addition, certain accommodations may not be approved or may not be appropriate at the post-secondary level, even if they were recommended by an evaluator or received in the past.